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<FONT SIZE="+2" COLOR="#00AEFF"><STRONG><EM>The Snowflake</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="+1"><STRONG>Henry Wagner</STRONG></FONT>
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While walking in the snow this morning<BR>
Watching millions of little snowflakes<BR>
Cast against the dark buildings of New York City<BR>
I began to wonder:<BR>
What if each of these snowflakes was really a small Universe<BR>
Created high above in the clouds<BR>
Floating down on the wind<BR>
Pulled by gravity<BR>
Minutes later to land on a window ledge, a tree branch, a car, or my nose<BR>
Soon to melt and be no more.
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During this brief time the universe would grow<BR>
Life may form<BR>
Great empires could rise<BR>
And fall<BR>
All of creation within would live and die<BR>
In a matter of our minutes.
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Little would that snowflake know<BR>
It was really just one of billions<BR>
Cast adrift in our world.
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Would there be creatures like us within?<BR>
How would they struggle?<BR>
The search for meaning<BR>
The search for love<BR>
The search for God.
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How many billions of snowflakes fell today?<BR>
How many universes formed?<BR>
How many empires fell?<BR>
How many lives lived and lost?
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Our own Universe may be just a snowflake<BR>
In some still larger place<BR>
Our own lives but the blink of an eye<BR>
As our little snowflake floats by
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3/22/1998, Brooklyn, NY</BLOCKQUOTE>
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